1st Edition
Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations Working Whiteness
By Pauline Leonard
Copyright 2010
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations offers a timely and contemporary discussion of the role of organizations in maintaining or challenging structures and cultures based on racism and discrimination. It offers a key exploration of the relations between whiteness, identity and organization in migratory contexts. It delves into the experiences of expatriates in Hong Kong and the ways... Read more
Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations
Biography
Pauline Leonard is a Reader in Sociology, at the School of Social Science, University of Southampton, UK
'This is an engaging, lucid and vivid description of expatriate lives, as well as a stimulating and legitimate challenge to abstract and macro perspectives on the ’cosmopolitan class’. It provides a hugely important and incredibly well-informed contribution to literature in the fields of globalisation, transnationalism and, especially, labour migration.' Karen O’Reilly, Loughborough University, UK
